Tough topics. Real people.
Stories & advice on workplace mental health from people who’ve been through it—and are still working on it.

ServiceSense: The Investment That Pays for Itself in Performance
Customer service leaders in healthcare insurance are caught in a familiar tension: the pressure to cut costs and the pressure to deliver better member experiences. What often gets lost in that equation is a more important question. What does it actually cost when your team can't perform at their best? The answer is more than most organizations realize.

SEP Is Not a Slowdown; It's a Proving Ground
The math of SEP is unforgiving. Conversion windows are narrower, qualifying events are specific, and prospect patience is thin. Industry patterns consistently show that SEP conversions require two to three times the effort of a comparable AEP close. Not because the product is harder to sell, but because the margin for error is smaller. That reality forces a reckoning. Organizations that scaled for volume now have to perform with precision. Teams that relied on the momentum of open enrollment season to carry them through have to find a different engine entirely.

The Rodeo is Still Going: Customer Service is in the Spotlight
Your team is at full capacity and showing up every day to push through it. But here's the thing about survival mode: it makes waste invisible. When everyone is heads down and the phones won't stop, nobody has bandwidth to notice where the minutes are slipping away.

The Path to Profitability: How ServiceSense Transforms Risk Adjustment Through Customer Service Excellence
Every call to your customer service center is more than just a member interaction; it's a potential opportunity to capture critical health information that impacts your risk adjustment revenue. Yet most healthcare insurance carriers are leaving money on the table because their representatives lack the tools to identify and document member health conditions during routine service calls. The challenge is clear: while your teams field thousands of benefit inquiries daily, they're missing opportunities that could significantly improve your risk adjustment scores and revenue. Traditional customer service platforms weren't built for the unique intersection of member service and clinical documentation that Medicare and ACA carriers face. Larger Risk Management is generally fueled by documented and coded claims from providers. Indirectly it can free up time on the call to add additional questions/touch points to improve follow up and identification of risk.

The Hidden Cost of Wrong-Fit Enrollments: Why Getting It Right the First Time Matters
Every wrong-fit enrollment sets off a costly chain reaction that most healthcare insurance carriers significantly underestimate. When a member enrolls in a plan that doesn't match their needs, your organization doesn't just face one problem: you face a cascade of issues that drain resources, damage relationships, and ultimately impact your bottom line.

It’s Time to Ditch Ctrl+F
Let's be real here. There's a lot about the traditional methods of selling plans that is clunky, inefficient, and often full of errors. If your team is relying on a "CTRL + F" approach to piecemealing information together, your team is operating off of outdated techniques. At the same time, if the recent sales sprints left you in the dust, you simply can't afford to keep doing these old, outdated tactics.
